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Finding Articles in Periodicals

When you don't have a citation to a specific article, but you do want to find articles on a subject, by a specific author or authors, or with a known article title, you need to use one or more periodical indexes. But how do you know which periodical index to use?

Determine what kind of periodicals you want. Do you want

scholarly journals?
newspapers and substantive news sources?
popular magazines?
all three kinds?

To learn more about the differences among scholarly journals, newspapers, and popular magazines, see Scholarly vs. Popular.

A good place to begin is EBSCO Host or Proquest , databases in GALILEO. EBSCO Host contains all three kinds of articles, including many full text articles.
For scholarly journals, use the subject databases available on GALILEO. For example, use MLA for literary criticism or ERIC for educational articles.
For newspaper articles, use Newspaper Source or Lexis-Nexis .

Contents

Introduction

Find & Develop a Topic

Find Background Info

Encyclopedias

Find books

Find Periodicals

Evaluate What You Find

Cite What You Use

Prepare Annotated Bibliography